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80 “ROXY HASTINGS. self. The favor you confer on me is very great, and if you will allow me to compensate you—” “Thank you,” replied Pickard, with a smile, but putting up deprecating hands; “I can accept nothing for such a service.” 2” “Tam very sorry. I do not think you ought to object. But you will at least take this memento of our meeting,” he said, unfastening a valuable diamond pin and present- ing it to the surgeon. ‘‘This is but a present.” Pickard accepted the jewel,saying : “You compel me, sir. You are very kind. I will wear it in remembrance of you.” Charley had packed his hundred double-eagles tightly in a small buckskin bag, and this, with a letter to his brother, he had enveloped in a multitude of wrappers, in order to deaden any sound which might otherwise betray the treasure to the ear of cupidity. The whole came into Pickard’s hands as a brown paper parcel, secured with a small cord (sealed at the tying - point), and directed to Lieut. Alfred Lee, of the —th Regi- ment, N. Y. Vols. CHAPTER XI. FOILED. There were twenty prisoners in the room in which Lieu- tenat Lee was confined, all being officers with the excep- tion of Hartley, who had been a private in Alfred’s com- pany, and had been admitted at his request, as an invalid friend who needed care and attention which he was will- ing to bestow. Louis was a slight, gentle lad, of a feminine cast of countenance, but of a stout heart, who never com- — plained except when some physical anguish wrung from him a momentary groan and who, notwithstanding his ill- ness, contributed his full share toward enlivening the spirits of his comrades and keeping up the general cheer. But, despite the implied compact not to succumb, there were many drooping heads at times, and moist eyes averted from a comrade’s gaze, and short, half suppressed sighs proclaiming the suffering which could not be quite con- cealed. ) } All were suffering some privations now, for the little money which they had about their persons when captured had been spent in the first month of their confinement for articles which had seemed to them then the necessaries of Eomicbhooks.co